Winter School
The fourth Brandeis MRSEC Winter School took place at the Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, VT from Monday, Feb 7 to Thursday, Feb 10, 2022. A record breaking number of attendees gathered to build Center cohesion, train and discuss research with their fellow MRSEC participants, and take opprotunities to hike and explore the beautiful Green Mountains.
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Monday, February 7, 2022
| Morning-3:45pm |
Informal science activities |
| 3:45pm-4:00pm |
Seth Fraden: Opening Remarks |
| 4:00pm-4:15pm |
Anahita Zare: 2021 Video Competition & 2022 Slam |
| 4:15pm-4:40pm |
Anjali Sharma: Liquid-liquid phase separation of multivalent DNA complexes |
| 4:40pm-5:05pm |
Thomas Powers: Active Matter in Externally Driven Flows |
| 5:05pm-5:30pm |
Botond Tyukodi: Capsids under compression |
| 5:30pm-5:35pm |
Wan Luo: Two-dimensional active flow between two plates |
| 5:35pm-5:40pm |
Kun-Ta Wu: Flow coupling between active and passive fluids across interfaces of compressed active droplets |
| 5:40pm-5:45pm |
Reto Trappitsch: Detecting atoms at the physical limits |
| 5:45pm-5:50pm |
Phu Tran: Machine learning for controlling active matter |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm |
Dinner, Event Barn Loft |
| 7:30pm – 7:45pm |
Group photo |
| 7:45pm – 10:00pm |
Poster Session, Tavern
Ben Strain (Duclos Lab): Emergent behaviors in motile beads driven by actin polymerization
Bibi Najma (Duclos Lab): Extensile to contractile transition in a 3D active network
Rupam Saha (Fraden Lab): Flexible assembly of DNA origami triangles on curved surfaces
Saaransh Singhal (Baskaran/Fai Labs): Active nematics in soft confinement
Sagnik Ghosh (Kondev Lab): Modelling epigenetic memory
Saptorshi Ghosh (Baskaran/Hagan Labs): Optimal control of active polar fluid
Sarvesh Uplap (Baskaran/Hagan Labs): Minimal design principle for vesicle transport
Simon Huynh (Fai Lab): Nonlinear Elasticity and Deformation Analysis of Blood Vessels
Thomas Videbaek (Rogers Lab): Geometrically programmed self-assembly of tubules using DNA-origami triangular colloids
Wei-Shao Wei (Fraden Lab): Assembly kinetics of synthetic capsids made from DNA origami
Zachary Curtis (Bisson Lab): The Role of the S-layer Lattice in Archaeal Cell Shape Plasticity |
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
| Morning-3:45pm |
Informal science activities |
| 3:45pm-4:10pm |
Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan: Waves and synchronization in active filament arrays |
| 4:10pm-4:35pm |
John Berezney: Actin-microtubule composites driven by kinesin motors |
| 4:35pm-5:00pm |
Daichi Hayakawa: Geometrically programmed self-assembly of tubules using DNA-origami triangular colloids |
| 5:00pm-5:25pm |
Aparna Baskaran: Using hydrodynamic theory to understand MT based active nematics - past, present and future |
| 5:25pm-5:30pm |
Lijie Ding: 3D structures of chiral membrane with edges |
| 5:30pm-5:35pm |
Teagan Bate: Mixing of active and passive fluids |
| 5:35pm-5:40pm |
Salman Alam: Role of confinement in stabilizing 3D Active nematic droplets |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm |
Dinner, Event Barn Loft |
| 8:00pm-9:00pm |
Ice skating |
| 9:00pm-12:00am |
Games, Tavern |
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
| Morning-3:45pm |
Informal science activities |
| 3:45pm-4:10pm |
Michael Wang: Self-assembly of frustrated 'puzzlemers': 2D and beyond! |
| 4:10pm-4:35pm |
Peter Foster: Dissipation and energy propagation across scales in an active cytoskeletal material |
| 4:35pm-5:00pm |
Pepijn Moerman: Reprogramming the binding specificity of DNA-coated colloids |
| 5:00pm-5:25pm |
Mike Norton: Towards model-based control of active and living systems |
| 5:25pm-5:30pm |
Aldric Rosario: In search of protein gradients in budding yeast |
| 5:30pm-5:35pm |
Kanaya Malakar: Response of non-linear network to extensile activity |
| 5:35pm-5:40pm |
Jeremy Laprade: Liquid-liquid phase separation and coarsening in an active fluid |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm |
Dinner, Event Barn Loft |
| 7:30pm – 9:45pm |
Poster Session, Tavern
Annemarie Winters (Duclos Lab): Information Propagation Through Cell Tissues as a Model for Active Nematic Liquid Crystals
Bennett Sessa (Duclos Lab): Quantifying Mesoscale Force Transduction in Active Biopolymer Networks
Christopher Amey (Hagan Lab): SINDy for model discovery in active systems
Joshua Dickie (Wu Lab): Active cavity flow: Active fluid confined in moving boundaries
Kyle Sullivan (Grason Lab): Self-Limiting Assembly of Curved Particles
Michael Stehnach (Fraden Lab): Microfluidic serial dilution device for multiplexed chemotaxis screening
Nick Hackney (Grason Lab): Aggregation, Dispersion & Condensation in Geometrically Frustrated Assembly
Olivia Leland (Bisson Lab): Archaeal Responses to Applied Forces
Yunrui Li (Hong Lab): Machine Learning Prediction of Active Nematics Flow
Zahra Zarei (Fraden Lab): Light-activated kinesin tune defect density and nematic speed |
